Veeam tests support for another VMware alternative: XCP-NG Fresh from debuting a version of its software for open source VMware alternative Proxmox, data management vendor Veeam has developed a prototype to backup another virtualization platform: the Xen Server fork XCP-NG. News of the prototype emerged in Veeam's forums, where earlier this month Olivier Lambert – CEO and co-founder …
If Broadcom management isn't careful, they may find that they may have miscalculated how their typical approach to pillaging software companies may play out as the barriers to migrating off of VMWare fall one-by-one. First Veeam supporting ProxMox and now supporting another alternative..
On the other hand, I hope Broadcom's arrogance blinds them and they end up divesting themselves from this direction - entirely.. I think the odds are in my favor, as it's been my observation that Senior management at most large public companies are completely arrogant, blind to changing market conditions and surround themselves with "yes" people that are so scared about losing their jobs that the actual truth is never conveyed to them until it's too late...usually showing up by plummeting stock prices and that gets the Board of Directors' attention real fast..as most of them are "papered-up" as compensation.
What's needed now is for hardware (server) companies to start working with the Virtualized Environment vendors to certify hardware platforms for use with their products.. Everyone wins.. well, except for Broadcom...
The real danger here is someone buys ProxMox, and then we have to go into the entire "forking" thing. I would not look forward to that, just look at what's happened with CentOS, what a mess.
Veeam adding a backup solution for XCP-NG is not really supporting it in a meaningful way. More likely someone had an itch they needed to scratch and out popped some patches.
There are plenty of on-prem Open Source virtualisation products and APIs that are very well supported. I'm pretty sure Veeam supported those as well...
Citrix products are so niche that someone found a way to leverage opensource to deploy xen without Citrix.
I have my homelab running xcp-ng 8.2.1 on about 7 Intel NUCs.
You cant mix AMD and Intel CPUs , can't mix versions but it all runs without bugging me for drivers. I do wish wifi would be a thing for hypervisors but that's not happening. Homelabs are things of beauty when it works. If it breaks I reload the last config backup and wipe if I need to. I got no data to speak of. All the isos scripts configs are on my workstation and I'm running it remote.
Beer as free as opensource as you can get without shelling out the green bucks.
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